For Jeff Herron, high-speed Internet access is one of the keys to his business success. And the key to his high-speed Internet access is a local nonprofit.

Mr. Herron runs a real-estate and document-retrieval firm in Falmouth, Ky., a rural area near the Ohio border where bad weather often makes roads impassable. He says the recent arrival of fast, affordable Internet service in surrounding PendletonCounty means his employees can work at home when wintry weather leaves them stranded, sometimes for days at a time.

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